Cowboy Night Herd Song

Cowboy Night Herd Song - Sons of The Pioneers

On night guard I'm a riding

Around a thousand bedded steers

And tonight my thoughts are sliding

Down the trail of distant years

Coyotes howling in the darkness

Chills my weary bones

Varmints prowl around the campfire

Makes the cowboy feel at home

Now the cold north wind is blowing

Snow comes falling down

Wrapped in my saddle blanket

Sleeping on the cold cold ground

I used to ponder over my luck

Wondered why it never changed

I was happy and free

Around my mammy's knee

Pulling on her apron strings

Now I long to see the sun come shining

Stealing through my kitchen door

Just to see my dear old mammy cooking ham

On that old kitchen stove

Where the mockingbird sings you to sleep at night

The moonbeams playing through the trees

Now some like the climate out in new mexico

But give me back my sunny tennessee